Exactly my sentiments - just as well it ain't happening. Even if it does somehow happen, it will not make Sofia look like Paris by any stretch of the imagination. It will make Sofia look even more outdated and Soviet era ugly than it already is. The French don't even hire this dude, they hire people like Richard Rogers (the Brit) and Renzo Piano (the Italian).

They should just hire the celebrated 'Architect' Baba Nellie - no doubt she would design a concrete monstrosity in the shape of her Samovar, complete with a solid gold statue of her hero Hitler on the top. Oh, and a basement carpark........

Clearly, they haven't heard about it in Bulgaria yet. They are at least 30 years behind the times as far as architectural design is concerned.'

Je ne sais pas, as Dominique Perrault would say.
I would say, thank God, they haven't heard about the post-modern thing in Bulgaria, yet. Samo tova ni lipsva. Yet, what if not 'mutra-post-modern' is the building-fashion spread throughout Bulgaria now? But it's logical, since the place the new-Bulgarians most probably enjoy to visit is Las Vegas.
And you are all too optimistic, Nelly, what 30 years, we need centuries to catch up with the world.

About Perrault, je ne sais pas, again. Visiting the National Library is like entering a sci-fi movie, out of this world. I don't say bad or good.

Presumably in order to finance this colonisation of public space the government will sell off many of its city centre properties to private developers. Given the way Bulgarian developers behave, I cannot imagine this will be good news for central Sofia. We can look forward to yet more casinos, mutra baroque hotels and chalga clubs...

Something about this story does not compute. I don't see why there is a need for a second city center and more government buildings. There are enough Stalinist government buildings already in existence, Sofia does not need more. The government during communist times was huge. Surely now the government is not larger? If there was enough space for the government during commie times, why is there not enough space now that the government should be shrinking? Someone should sharpen his pencil and do some serious space planning.

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